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Today I decided to try and pick up a backlog and tackle Wild Arms Alter Code F again. Gee golly folks... I hate picking up games I put down a year a ago. I remember the plot well enough but it took all afternoon to familiarize myself with the mechanics again. I shall not falter with this effort! I wanted to play-through Wild Arms since I was kid (when first it bested me). I don't even think I love all that much about the title aside from the soundtrack and setting to be honest, but at this point it is personal!!-LoL

Just play the original. Horrible combat graphics aside, it's generally a far better game, since most of the new stuff in ACF you either don't get to play with much/can entirely lock yourself out of until the post-game.

Also ACF's translation is inexplicable worse, and the music is entirely explicably worse.

Panzer Dragoon Saga - Appears to be really short. Dungeons don't have much going on in them. Battle system is really simple. Heavy on the cutscenes. Think I'll pass.

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o/` I do not feel joy o/`o/` I do not dream o/`o/` I only stare at the door and smoke o/`

Just play the original. Horrible combat graphics aside, it's generally a far better game, since most of the new stuff in ACF you either don't get to play with much/can entirely lock yourself out of until the post-game.

No can do.... I am already 35 hours in. Just got past the the photosphere. In hinesight, I sort of wish I did opt to play the original but many moons ago I already played through 3/4 of that and wanted a fresh take on things.

In all honesty ACF is not without merit IMO. They did an excellent job of maintaining the "feeling" of playing the original (quite literally in terms of control and dungeons and whatnot...) whilst pulling off quite the "facelift", if you catch my meaning. The gameplay sacrifices they made baffle me though.

Thought the music was fan-tastic in ACF. Thought the combat was ruined. Oh good, 9 enemies at once who use OBSERVE and all move before me, each taking 2-3 hits to kill. I won't be here all day.

It was fantastic (I'm glad they added a few more tracks too), but for its time, the quality of music in the original was ahead of its time -- it was phenomenal.

The enemy quantity didn't bother me, at least it didn't in WA3 and it's basically a carbon clone of that game.But yeah, what the hell happened to ACF graphically?? It's a fucking mess; especially after how beautifully WA4 and 5 came out.

It was a worthy attempt, but yeah, like Mesh I see no reason to get ACF when the original was perfectly fine.

Nearing the end of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny...just need to craft my final weapons and accessories. I'd like to make a note that I Aden--your character--is amusing as he is a douchbag. Also, he randomly called a water fountain swanky. What's not to like?

I started up a new game of FFXII today and just made it back into Rabanastre after running that long ass dungeon after getting Basch. I never did finish this game but I'm going to try to stick with it this time. I forgot how stingy this game is with Gil:(

Yeah, my bad, ACF's music was good. I like how the overworld deviates from Morricone's original considerably more anyway.

PDS - Finished disc 1 (at like two hours). I love the style of this game. I don't think it's terribly fun to play.

Dungeon designs have yet to get away from being super simplistic. There's no real variety or strategy in how you deal with the battle (stay in the green area till you fully charge, move to the enemy's weakspot and combo attack), and random battles are too frequent for how long they can last -- also you can set them off by rotating apparently? Not much variety in the special attacks, either. Your special form gets on unique buff based on the form and you can swap stats mid battle, but all of the attacks are... just damage dealing attacks that get progressively strong.

I do like some of the neat optional stuff, like being able to save the baby sandworm in the desert, but... for the price it commands on eBay? For what it's worth, I like Zwei and Orta a lot more.

« Last Edit: June 10, 2013, 12:25:48 AM by MeshGearFox »

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o/` I do not feel joy o/`o/` I do not dream o/`o/` I only stare at the door and smoke o/`

I started up a new game of FFXII today and just made it back into Rabanaste after running that long ass dungeon after getting Basch. I never did finish this game but I'm going to try to stick with it this time. I forgot how stingy this game is with Gil:(

I got FF12 on day one, and took a break from my intense WoW addiction to play it, and really loved it. I finished the main game and like 75% of the extra content and always wanted to go back and wrap it up. Great game.

Still working on some loose ends on FF6. The move into my home took a zillion times more effort than I though it would.

I started up a new game of FFXII today and just made it back into Rabanastre after running that long ass dungeon after getting Basch. I never did finish this game but I'm going to try to stick with it this time. I forgot how stingy this game is with Gil:(

This was one of the more annoying aspects of the game since you can't even compensate with treasure found in chests since they almost all suck or base their payout on random chance, but there's an accessory that can improve the contents of chests, except for the good ones which will screw you over 100% of the time while said accessory is equipped, and the game doesn't tell you which are which, and that's if they even spawn to begin with otherwise you'll have to march back out of whatever 100 floor dungeon you were crawling from, hit a save point, and then save and reload and hope for the best next time.

And then there are enemy drops.....:ugh:

Also you have the Bazaar. You just need to find a chart that tells you what ingredients are needed for which item you want and which ones are trying to get you to sink your super rare material that one boss drops early on and the next piece is a super rare drop from a stupidly powerful enemy that only rarely spawns in the middle of nowhere and will wreck your shit even at endgame levels.

At least you have marks. Pretty much your only source of character advancement beyond the license board and levels.

Still chugging along at Wizardry VI. Not sure where to go at the moment. I think I prefer the castle to this area although the mines do have a giant wizard head that blocks my path. A troll tried to make me pay a toll but I decided to decline. He promptly destroyed my party. Lesson learned.

Been toying with the idea of reinstalling Divine Divinity. I never finished the game although I loved every moment of it. From what I remember it was similar to Diablo but full of humour and in a more fleshed out world. It was also buggy as hell.

Man, last night work ran rather late for me so I couldn't get to animal crossing or re-familiarizing myself with where the hell I was with Wilds Arms ACF... so last nights gaming session was a bit of Labrys' scenario in P4 arena. Labrys wins the award for most annoying voice over/eng dub ever for me... I'd take the horrible cheesy voice acting of any niche' gust title from yesteryear over hearing that freakin' android utter another word...

Today however I did get to Animal Crossing. Didn't really think I could enjoy this but I think I was wrong... I can easily see how this can becoming hella-addicting to tend to on a daily basis...

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In this world is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcedental entity or law? is it like the hand of god hovering above? Perhaps Man has no control even over his own will…

Man, last night work ran rather late for me so I couldn't get to animal crossing or re-familiarizing myself with where the hell I was with Wilds Arms ACF... so last nights gaming session was a bit of Labrys' scenario in P4 arena. Labrys wins the award for most annoying voice over/eng dub ever for me... I'd take the horrible cheesy voice acting of any niche' gust title from yesteryear over hearing that freakin' android utter another word...

Today however I did get to Animal Crossing. Didn't really think I could enjoy this but I think I was wrong... I can easily see how this can becoming hella-addicting to tend to on a daily basis...

Hahaha! Now I don't feel so doofus-like for buying AC!

I think I'm gonna regret selling that Sunfish I caught my first day, but it did make my first down payment on my house.

Man, last night work ran rather late for me so I couldn't get to animal crossing or re-familiarizing myself with where the hell I was with Wilds Arms ACF... so last nights gaming session was a bit of Labrys' scenario in P4 arena. Labrys wins the award for most annoying voice over/eng dub ever for me... I'd take the horrible cheesy voice acting of any niche' gust title from yesteryear over hearing that freakin' android utter another word...

Today however I did get to Animal Crossing. Didn't really think I could enjoy this but I think I was wrong... I can easily see how this can becoming hella-addicting to tend to on a daily basis...

Hahaha! Now I don't feel so doofus-like for buying AC!

I think I'm gonna regret selling that Sunfish I caught my first day, but it did make my first down payment on my house.

There is a sort of stigma that comes along with playing AC isn't there? I don't care! I love this game and I'm a 28 year old male. It's the perfect, relaxing Summer game IMO.